Logic or the lack thereof

Logic fallacies are a tool for the foolish and recognizing them is your only defense.

Professor Hunt
2021-10-20

Logical Fallacies

Logical fallacies are dangerous because people can use them unintentionally or worse intentionally because their argument is poor. Critical thinking and logic are inseparable, but I would argue that one cannot think critically without understanding logic.

This page lists common logical fallacies and gives examples. I plan on adding to this list until it is complete.

The List

argumentum ad speculum

Counterfactual fallacy

Occurs when someone states a fact, then states something would be true if the stated fact were not true without other evidence.

Common layout

Fallacy: Therefore, if counterfactual A was false, then counterfactual B would be false

Worse

Fallacy: Therefore, if counterfactual A was false, then counterfactual B would be false

Counterfactual: a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”

Example: My cousin died of covid, but he would not have died if he were vaccinated.

Fallacy: My cousin would have lived, if he had taken the vaccine.

This is literally unknowable